Re: [Sheflug] Newbie - H/W recommendations please

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

I have had Linux running on a 386sx16 with 2Mb RAM (yes, thats right) and
no hard disk. (Floppy / filesystem. Not nice. 12 minute boot, anyone?)

It was awful :)
Worked, though

Craig

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:
>
> > > I'm writing this message from a P-75 (Viglen too), happily running
> > > SuSE-7.0 with a 2.4.x kernel. Just need a bit more memory than those
> > > 'old' PC usually have - I've got 48M and that's about ok for me (64M would
> > > do better though:-))
> > >
> >
> > P75? Pah! Luxery! My laptop - an aging 486/25 with a grand total of 12MB of
> > memory is quite happily running a basterdised SuSE 6.2...no X though...the
>
> Yeah... I did mean with X, Netscape, emacs and all those fancy
> thingies:-) I've got a slightly better-off one at work (486DX2/33 with
> 16M) also running SuSE-7.0 - no X server, but I did put couple X-clients
> there, like rxvt, qps...
>
> We are still to hear from a 386-owner:-)
> Guennadi
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> University of Sheffield, U.K.
> email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk
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